18 Aug 2007

More From Jolly Old England

One of the most fun days we have ever had was spent at Woburn Safari Park. I have been many many times and Jacob has been once before but lily had never been and she was thrilled with the place. You drive your car around the park and the animals are roaming free. It gets a little nerve wrecking when Rhinos start heading straight towards your car but once you get into the monkey area it is nothing but side splitting fun. Jacob happened to have the video camera rolling when the first monkey jumped on our car.


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We ended up with a total of 16 monkeys on our car and Lily was just as excited each time.

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Paddling the swan boats with Lily at the helm.......heaven help us.

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Another day we spent down at the river in a dinghy. This actual dinghy belonged to me when I was just a tyke. None of my cousins could believe it was still OK since we spent so many hours in it having rough fun. Thank you Uncle John for keeping it Lily loved it.
The temperature of the water was the same as the water here in the middle of our winter, needless to say we were frozen. I cannot believe that my little Florida boy of a hubby actually got in it.

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A family gathering minus my father who ran for the hills of Scotland for 2 days to catch us a salmon for our dinner.

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We went to the Cadbury Chocolate factory and look at this they even make shoes out of chocolate...I thought I had died and gone to heaven!

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Lily and Heather with the chocolate bean

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The crazy girls eating ice cream at the chocolate factory.

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Cadbury World as it is called was fabby as they gave out loads and loads of chokky the whole time.

Tomorrow I will post the nutty family shots and most of them will be of my brother who kept saying, take one of me to put on your blog. He will regret asking I assure you cos I have some taken at 2.00am and he not looky so good!

15 comments:

  1. Everything looks so wonderful! I want those chocolate shoes.

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  2. So much fun; must have been so hard to come back.

    BTW, the monkeys made me laugh too :)

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  3. how fun that seemed to be...I love the monkey video and Lily's laugh is just so contagious!!

    and the cadbury factory seems heavenly....mmmmm chocolate!!

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  4. Dawn, I am so enjoying all the fun details of your trip...I LOVE LOVE LOVE Lily's reaction to the monkeys on the car -- couldn't help but laugh with her!
    And,
    Chocolate shoes!? I bet you WERE in heaven.
    Lookin' forward to seeing the goofy pics -- I think it's hilarious that your brother kept wanting to give you your blog material. (my neice asks me to post her pics on mine all of the time...I think she thinks it'll make her famous!)
    Again, glad you're back.

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  5. I love Lily's face when the monkey came on the car...she was so happy! That grin!

    As for the chocolate.....oh....that is a DANGEROUS place.....very dangerous.....to the hips!

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  6. love the videos - LOVE when Lily giggles with the monkeys!!!

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  7. The zoo sounds like soooooo much fun!!!! The dingy boat thing is awesome too!!!!

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  8. Hi Dawn .Glad your safely back.Can I p-ut a plea in please to edit the photos going out tomorrow!!!!!
    Your big brother.xxx

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  9. So glad you are back. All the pictures and videos are wonderful. My Mother is always sad to leave The Netherlands as well. I'm sure the shopping was F.A.B.U.L.O.U.S!

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  10. Oh my goodness what great fun you guys had!!! I love the pictures!

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  11. Lily's laugh is PURE JOY!! Love it!
    Great photos & videos!

    Patricia/NYC
    lucky momma to a rascal from Hubei

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  12. What a rockin' trip. It looks like a total fantasy trip to me...gnawing little monkey and all.

    As always, Lily's giggle always gets me goin'

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  13. Looks like you guys had a wonderful time. The monkey videos are too funny and I love those chocolate shoes!

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  14. Droooll....chocolate shoes...num


    Keep smilin!

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  15. I was wondering when you were getting back. It looks like you guys all had a fabulous time. The monkey biting on your spare was too funny.

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